Going Back to Work

Today I found out that I got a job as a teacher at a pre-school/day care center. I had interviewed for the position last week, however they hadn't called me back when they said they would, so I assumed that they had found someone else, esp. since I have very few formal qualifications for the position. I am in shock now, and a little panicky. I start tomorrow with training, from noon until 6, and when I am done with the training it will be a 8-6pm full time job. I started thinking about it, and the last time I had a full time normal job was the year before high school.... I've had part time jobs since then, but nothing full time, and all those jobs were pansy jobs, so I'm excited and nervous for this "real" job. I will start out in a "floating" position, helping out in all the classes, wherever they need help, and eventually when they feel I'm ready I could have my own class. I feel this is a really good learning experience ahead of me, and I am proud and thankful that I was able to get a dignified job and not have to resort to some of my back-up plan jobs, because those wouldn't have been very enjoyable (ie conducting phone surveys like I did back in college). Ryan will be home to take care of Ethan, until Ryan finds a job, but we are going to go step by step and see how things go and not worrying about what happens when Ryan gets a job until he does get a job. I've always wanted to be a stay at home mom, so it will be hard to be away from home, however I know it won't be forever. It will help us out financially and eventually I will be able to go back to being a stay at home mom.

For All the Pregnant Ladies Out There

I just found out that the wife of a friend from college is starting her own maternity clothes business called Milan Maternity. I checked out her website and she has some pretty cute clothes. Here is the website for anyone interested in taking a peek: http://www.milanmaternity.com/

I know I'm forgeting something......

Is there a medical condition that causes poor memory? I'm not talking about alzheimers or dementia, and I'm not talking about silly memory lapses. You always hear people complain about being forgetful, calling them "senior moments" or attributing it to being an air head. I have trouble remembering things, everything from where I put my keys to appointments I have, and it happens so incredibly frequently that it honestly isn't very funny, it's embarassing. I've tried keeping lists and planners, but I always lose the lists or planners, or forget to write in them. In school I would forget about assignments or forget when they were due, or forget what the assignment was actually about. I'd forget what was said in class, I'd try to take notes, but i'm horrible at note taking- and i'm not just saying that to make excuses, I really am horrible at taking notes. I'd take notes on all the wrong things, or I could never keep up with the teacher and what he was saying. Now it's things like misplacing very important items on a daily basis, or even putting them somewhere safe where "i'll remember it" and yet still forgeting. I have a special place for certain items to make sure I won't lose them, but i still lose things so incredibly easily. Then there is the appointment thing. If I don't think about an appointment the night before or the morning of I will completely forget about it. And even then, I can think about it up until a couple of hours before and I will get distracted and still manage to forget about it. I'm very frustrated with myself, as you can see, it is very discouraging. I want people to be able to depend on me, but I don't know what to do when I can completely forget about something so easily.

Artist: Chris Turnham

I wanted to start highlighting some artists whom I am in complete awe over. I only know personally a couple of the artists on my artist list, but when I find an artist work that I love I add them to my list. Today I want to feature Chris Turnham. I accidentally happened upon his work one day when I was googling something or other. I love his interpretations of line, space, and color. I like looking at his sites and seeing how imaginative his concepts are. Imagination is something I really need to work on. Chris also worked on the artwork for the animated movie Coraline, a movie with amazingly beautiful and imaginative artwork (and also a movie that I would definately not recomend taking your children too....). I highly recomend that you take a look at one of his two sites that I have discovered. http://www.christurnham.com/ or http://www.christurnham.blogspot.com/

This week has been a very hard week for me, just several big things going on that have caused me discouragement and sadness. I hope next week is better.

Ethan Singing

Here are two audio only videos I took this evening of Ethan singing. I was putting him to bed, and I started to sing him a song like I do every night, but this time he started singing with me. It melted my heart, he was so sweet about it. He has attempted a couple of notes before but he has never tried to sing a whole song. I think music might be a good way of teaching him to talk, he loves music and playing on the piano, and I was so excited to hear his cute little voice as he tried to sing "you are my sunshine" and "twinkle twinkle little star". I didn't tape it, but we also sang "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" which he loved and kept wanting to sing again and again. I think he's so cute. :)

Today I went to a friends home and took a bunch of pictures of her cute children to use as reference pictures for future illustrations/artwork. She was so kind and patient to let me take the pictures, and I am really excited to see how the images turned out. I used my nice camera, which isn't digital, so I'm going to have Costco put them on a cd so that I can then go through them one at a time and determine which ones are keepers and worth printing for reference photos. I'm excited because I have some good ideas for some illustrations. As soon as I get done I will post pictures of the artwork.